From: Richard Knapp (gyp_caver_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 12:01:52 CEST
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Well, progress on software has been slower than I imagined. I have been stumbling through some design issues and
have been busy on other chores (darn lawn).
Anyway, I've got a class that will build and XML file as specified by the draft DTD I published earlier here. I still need to
add more functionality to the class to query the DTD/Schema more instead of relying on hard-coded sections.
Since I'm trying to read in various formats, convert them to CaveXML, then convert them to other formats, I was having a
problem with tying formats together. Should the COMPASS class know how to create a CaveXML dom doc? It would be
a little easier if it could just read the data and build a dom from there but I don't think that is a very robust solution. So I'm
working with a format reading posting events and a format builder/writer receiving those events and acting as it can.
(FWIW, this is being done in Java 1.1.8.)
Another design issue is how to handle multiple files to convert. Should it just assume one input file per output file (too
restrictive) or allow multiple file formats to be grouped into on CaveXML doc (nice but much harder)?
I have yet to really dig into JavaCC - a Java lexxer - to simplify handling file parsing. Anybody else using it?
That's where I stand on this. How's everybody else doing?
- Richard Knapp
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